Public Disorder: Eviction from Social Housing

Debate between Baroness Hanham and Baroness O'Loan

Thursday 15th September 2011 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Hanham]

My Lords, clearly, the answer to that is yes. It is also clear that a number of the parents of those who were involved in the riots did not know where their children were at the time.

[Baroness O'Loan]

My Lords, if a member of a family has allegedly committed some rioting offence and the remaining members of that family are completely uninvolved in their activities, and if they are evicted from their home and thereby lose what may be the only security they have, is it not possible that other members of the family may be driven into worse conditions and ultimately into crime?